How Do you Spell Minutiae?

Do you view them as trifling details

or precise and purposeful points?

Are they Blake's grain of sand,

or whether you dined on scrod

or sea bream last Friday night?

I thought minutiae meant trivial,

but it also refers to minute matters

of import, whether to employ

semi-colon or period, comma or dash.

The poet champions image over trodden

or trite: the bat that flits at the close

of eve, the outcry of the hunted hare.

And then there's the key to keeping

hold of a wonder-struck wit:

It was sea bream; I'm sure of it.